Love them upgrades
So I spent half my day working on WordPress upgrades for myself and others, and lo! I have more work to do now than I did at the beginning of the day.
Roon is completely down; I don’t know why. (Possibly something to do with mod_rewrite weirdness; it borked with HTTP 500s after I visited the permalinks options page.) Shark Tank, Textual Deviant, and Beyond 360 are up, but I have to redo all their templates as WP themes. I’ve got the WP install on TAG working, but have yet to move any content into it. (Never mind that much of that content needs major rewriting.)
And I haven’t dared touch poor CavLec, because I’d be most upset if I borked it. (Roon I can live without for a bit, if I have to.)
Sigh. On the plus side, I did find the predecessor to the pro bono conversion job in my archives, so I won’t have to recreate the regexes or the markup from scratch. That’s a good thing. And I billed the Montreal trip, and took care of some job-search courtesies.
Days like this could turn Nicholas Negroponte into a Luddite, I swear.
ETA: Fixed Roon. For others’ reference, the problem was that WordPress was kindly editing .htaccess for me such that I had two sets of (apparently conflicting) URL rewrite rules. The fix, as far as I can tell, is to let WP do its thing, grab the resulting .htaccess file, kill the original rewrite rules from it, and reupload the result. But don’t touch the comments #Begin WordPress and #End WordPress! If you do, WP will stick yet another set of rewrite rules in, and you’ll bork your site.